Description
This is a hand-coloured print of a sketch made by George French Angas (1822-86) of the gold fields at Ophir, near Bathurst, New South Wales, in 1851. The title of the sketch ('Ophir at the junction') refers to the junction of Summer Hill and Lewis Pond Creeks, but the junction itself is not clearly shown. The view is from a hill with a dead tree overlooking a valley, with tiny figures using cradles to wash for gold at a stream in the foreground. Tents, lean-to structures, huts and a few people are scattered on the middle-ground terraces above a creek. The print measures 24.8 cm x 34.3 cm, and is Plate 4 in a publication by Angas entitled 'Six views of the gold field of Ophir'.
Acknowledgements
| Copyright | Reproduced courtesy of National Library of Australia |
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| Creator | George French Angas, artist, 1851 Woolcott and Clarke, publisher, 1851 Kemp and Fairfax Printers, printer, 1851 |
| Identifiers | National Library of Australia catalogue number nla.pic-an6065484
TLF resource R3562 |
| Source | National Library of Australia, http://www.nla.gov.au |
